Another week, another General Motors recall. This week's recall of 8.4 million vehicles makes it 29 million on the year, and we're only six months in. At this pace, GM is going to recall 60 million vehicles by December. So why doesn't GM do itself and everyone else a favor and just issue a blanket recall for every vehicle it's ever made and get it over with? This is like watching a slow-motion train wreck. Michigan can't afford this.

But we can still laugh through the pain, right? Did you hear what their new release this year is going to be called? The Chevy Apology. It's the world's first car with built-in recall technology. When you buy one, they hand you the keys and a recall notice.

Here's the weird thing: GM sales, despite all the bad news, were up in June. Analysts say it's because the economy is recovering but also because the recalls themselves have drawn people into the showrooms. Huh? So you're in the dealership because your car was recalled – possibly for a life-threatening defect – and you're buying another car from that same company? I don't get it.

Did NBC's Matt Lauer really ask GM's Mary Barra if she could be a good mom and a good CEO at the same time? Yee-ikes, Matt. What is this, the 1930s? If he's that much of an oinker, I'm surprised he didn't ask her if she can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan and never, never, never let him forget he's a man.

For you younger readers, that was a reference to an old, old TV commercial for Enjoli perfume. You can look it up on YouTube. Prepare to be appalled.

Well, this stinks. Ollie Fretter, the old pitchman for Fretter Appliances, which is long gone, died this week. He used to promise you a pound of coffee, or something like that, if someone beat his best deal. Don't you wish businesses did goofy stuff like that these days? I miss oddballs like that. I really do.

I think we may have hit a new low with the jingle in Dairy Queen's new TV spots for s'mores Blizzards. Hearing it makes me want to hurt something – specifically the guy who wrote the thing.

Did you hear about this? Facebook secretly conducted an experiment to see if it could alter the emotional state of its users. I'd say the answer is an unqualified yes. They certainly altered my mood, which went from calm to "They did what?"

Am I misremembering? Back in the day when people did something stupid, didn't they generally shut up about it? Now they feel the need to "break their silence." Most recently it's Monica Lewinsky, who wrote a piece for Vanity Fair and will appear this Sunday on a National Geographic special. I confess I'm curious what she looks like now, but I was enjoying her silence.

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." – Amelia Earhart.